Word: abysses
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...first of these inducements needs no explanation. The second depends in part upon the ease with which the transition from inshore to offshore waters can be reached from Woods Hole, on the abruptness of that transition, and on proximity to the continental slope and abyss. At the same time, the Gulf of Maine, close at hand with its tributaries, offers a more promising field for intensive investigations into the interaction between the physical-chemical and the biologic aspects of Oceanography than any other sector of comparable extent along the coast of America. The thermal diversity, regional, bathymetric and seasonal...
Further excerpts: ". . . The old inventor had spread the tail of his frock coat like a sail and was in full flight toward the abyss of night. 'Do you mean to say,' shouted the saint as he caught up with him, 'that you actually don't want to enter heaven...
Disgusted at these futile attempts, the commandant of the nearest garrison ordered a squad of soldiers to the Ihlamour wellhead. An officer barked commands. The soldiers fired ten rounds rapidly down the well. When the smoke cleared away Yusuf's duck was heard quacking irritably from the abyss. Superstitious Mussulmans fled from the neighborhood, claimed that the duck was bewitched. City authorities posted the well as unfit for drinking purposes. While Ihlamour city fathers concentrated on the problem of duck extraction, Ihlamour householders were forced to go nearly two miles to the nearest unpolluted well...
...relativity), Novelist Thomas Mann (Buddenbrooks), Chancellor of Germany Hermann Miiller, Chairman Theodor Leipart of the associated German trades unions-the manifesto read: "After an epoch in which the victor states [in the War] . . . sought to force on Germany their will-an epoch in which Germany came close to the abyss-German efforts have succeeded in bringing about a revival. . . . The period of violence and one-sided dictatorship was succeeded by a period of negotiations and understanding. . . . Liberation of the Rhineland from foreign occupation will be . accomplished in a short time. Reparations will be reduced by important yearly sums. . . . "This development...
...prove boomerangs. Dr. Schacht has indeed acted strangely in receiving Allied reductions so coldly, and precipitating the present impasse. He seems to be playing for high stakes, and Germany stands to lose heavily if he loses. The members of the Committee and their governments are eager to avoid the abyss which he has opened before them, but there is great question whether governments do not move so ponderously that even though the will of the people were for such sweeping reductions of the German debts and such guarantees of political restoration of Germany as he proposes, the machinery could work...